About

Beginning of June 2018, the Zurich Haskell Meetup Group will organize ZuriHac 2018, a three day Haskell Hackathon hosted at the HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil. This is the seventh Haskell Hackathon organized by the Zurich Haskell Meetup Group and the second one which is hosted at the HSR. A fantastic venue located right at lake Zurich and providing space for over 300 participants.

The Haskell Hackathon is a free (as in beer), international, grassroots collaborative coding festival whose goal is to expand the community and to build and improve Haskell libraries, tools, and infrastructure.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about Haskell, meet fellow Haskellers in real life, find new contributors for your project, improve existing libraries and tools or even start new ones!

This event is open to any experience level, from beginners to gurus. In fact, one of the goals is to bring beginners in contact with experts so that the former can get a quick start in the Haskell community. This year, we will have a dedicated beginners' course, and going to be mentors on site whom you can directly approach during the whole event with any Haskell-related question you have.

Supported by

Speakers

Niki Vazou

Niki Vazou is a post-doc scholar at PLUM of University of Maryland, focusing mostly on refinement types, static program verification, and type systems. She is the author of Liquid Haskell, a type system extension to GHC that lets you add sophisticated predicates to type signatures.

Stephen Diehl

Stephen is a Haskell developer, entrepreneur, and financial systems architect from Boston. His open source work is around numerical computing, compilers, security, and improving Haskell documentation. Author of the amazing What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell.

Gabriel Gonzalez

Joachim Breitner

Post-doc researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the core contributors to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Author of The Incredible Proof Machine and not afraid to try funkyideas.

Schedule

All talks and keynotes take place in the aula (building 4). Lunch is served in the mensa (building 4). Pizza and BBQ will be consumed outside (in front of building 1).

9:0021:00

Friday

June 8

Doors open

9:00

Keynote

10:00 – 11:00

Project presentation

11:00 – 12:00

Lunch

12:30 – 14:00

Keynote

14:00 – 15:00

Pizza

18:00 – 21:00

Saturday

June 9

Keynote

10:00 – 11:00

Lunch

12:00 – 14:00

Keynote

14:00 – 15:00

BBQ

18:00 – 21:00

Sunday

June 10

Keynote

10:00 – 11:00

Lunch

12:00 – 14:00

Project demos

15:00 – 16:00

End of event

17:00

Food

Lunch coupons are sold during registration. A coupon costs CHF 30 and includes lunch for three days. Vegetarian options are available during every lunch. Of course, you are always free to go to nearby restaurants and/or supermarkets, like the past years.

The exact menu will be announced here before the event.

On Friday evening, a mobile pizzeria will visit the venue. Pizzas will cost around CHF 15.

On Saturday evening, there is a bring-your-own meat BBQ. Meat (or vegetarian/vegan alternatives) can be obtained from nearby supermarkets.

C++ Standardisation Committee

The HSR is also hosting the spring session of the C++ standardisation committee from 04.06.2018 - 09.06.2018. In order to promote the cross-fertilisation of ideas between the two communities, the attendees of the C++ standardisation committee meeting will be welcome to attend the ZuriHac2018 keynote speeches and the Pizza dinner on Friday 08.06.2017. In turn, ZuriHac2018 attendees are welcome to take a peek at the meetings of the C++ standardisation committee. For more information on the C++ standardisation committee meeting, please refer to this link. In case you plan on attending a session, please send a short email to Peter Sommerlad (peter.sommerlad at hsr.ch).

Projects

In between the talks you can join one of these projects and help the maintainers out with bug fixes or new features. We have plenty of space available in 10 separate rooms where you can team up with your peers and work on your favourite project.

The venue is located right next to the lake, and weather is predicted to be superb (25°C, 77℉), so feel free to bring your swimming gear.

Getting there

You can take the S7 or S15 to get from the Zurich main station to Rapperswil. These trains run regularly in 30 minute and 60 minute intervals, respectively.

If you arrive at the Zurich airport, first take the train to the Zurich main station and then continue with S7 or S15. Trains from the airport towards the city run every few minutes.

Tickets: If you stay in Zurich city, get a day pass for all zones. It's good for all public transportation around Zurich, up to Rapperswil. A one-way ticket costs 17.20CHF, the day pass 34.40CHF. If you want to stay closer to the venue and save on transportation, please see the section further below with accomodation suggestions around Rapperswil.

Getting around

See this map for more information on accomodation, grocery stores, and other useful places.

Registration

Once we reach maximum capacity you will be queued into a wait list. In case that somebody cancels we will fill up the seats from the wait list in first come first serve order and let you know. Do not book anything before we have confirmed a seat for you (in a confirmation email) though. Confirmation emails are sent out in batches and this is a manual process, so expect some delay there.

Contact

Before the event, and in particular during the event, you can find us and other participants at Zurihac Slack or on the #zurihac channel on freenode (open in your IRC client. In addition, feel free to post on Twitter and Google+ using the hashtag #ZuriHac2018.

Terms and Conditions

Each participant will retain ownership of any and all intellectual and industrial property rights to his or her work created or used during the Hackathon.